B-Space, the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Business Incubator has opened applications for its incubation programme (INK). Teams consisting of at least one RSU student, employee or graduate who have a business idea are invited to participate in the programme in order to develop their idea further, conduct market research and develop a product or service over four months.
Both in Europe and elsewhere in the world, morbidity rates are rising rapidly and there are concerns about a new coronavirus wave due to the spread of both the Delta virus and the new variant – Omicron.
The Health Division of the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS) is announcing a vacancy for one or more Health Policy Analysts. Suitably qualified candidates are welcome to apply before the closing date on 16 January 2022.
The Ministry of Health (reg. No. 90001474921) has announced a competition for several positions of Member of the Riga Stradiņš University (RSU) Council nominated by the Cabinet of Ministers (five positions for a four-year term).
What does food mean to you? Is it a physiological necessity? Pleasure? Tradition? Or something else entirely? Can you imagine Christmas without rosols (Latvian potato salad – ed.), gingerbread, tangerines, pīrāgi (Latvian bacon buns – ed.) or grey peas with speck? Have you ever wondered why? Why don’t we choose to put pasta or dumplings on the table at Christmas, and why would Jāņi not be Jāņi without beer and cheese? Why do we drink champagne on New Year’s Eve and have cake on our birthday?
Anger, intolerance, self-righteousness, and rudeness have long been sadly prevalent in people’s attitude towards one another, and not just in Latvia. Researchers have conducted several studies on the consequences of rude behaviour; niceness and civility are also important in medicine. The conclusion is that civility improves medical personnel’s work, enhances their performance, improves treatment outcomes, and reduces the number of medical errors. In other words, civility saves lives!
The RSU Christmas Concert Home for Christmas will take place at 20:00 on 22 December.
To get into the holiday spirit, and to reflect the diversity of students at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU), we will be compiling a description and photos of different holidays and traditions that RSU students celebrate throughout the holiday season.
- Simona Costa (Italy), Vice President of ASiR: Interactive Nativity Scene
Since autumn, the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Student Union (SP, Studējošo pašpārvalde), the RSU Department of Information Technology and the RSU Communications Department have been working intently on developing the new RSU student portal in cooperation with Campus M. Although the portal’s development process is almost completed, practical usage tests are still being run.
Work on the new portal was launched in order to modernise and adapt it to the latest digital trends and make functional and visual improvements to facilitate usage.
Joining forces, students from Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) and Riga Technical University (RTU) are developing a prototype of an air purifier and disinfection robot to autonomously improve indoor air quality.
